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On F.A. Hayek\'s "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) and Amartya Sen\'s On Ethics and Economics (1987). Is economics a pseudoscience? Are its assumptions by necessity too over-simplifying? Hayek objects to the idea of planning an economy, because the planners aren\'t in a position to know enough. With guest Seth Benzell, who starts us off with a "precognition" of the material.

End song: "People Who Throw Away Love" by Mark Lint from The Cheese Stands Alone.

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